A zoolike collection of exotic fur coats ( "It's been a bloodbath -- furs are my weakness," she admits) is maintained in labeled cloth bags, while a season's lesser models get relegated to nonslip hangers in the nosebleed back row.

With "porno" in the title, this project has been labeled from the start as something that will push the boundaries of the acceptable (as all of Smith's movies do), but the MPAA still wasn't letting anything slide.

On McCain's strategy: "He realizes the Republican brand as it's being labeled is a problem for him and so he has tread this fine line: be a Republican, utilize George Bush to raise money but try to carve out this maverick, independent image which is very difficult because in order to win the primary he had to embrace many of those traditional Republican traditions."